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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Li-ion seen dominating hybrid market for 15-20 years

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    Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:43pm EDT
    A worker holds a lithium-ion automotive battery in the Johnson Controls Saft Advanced Power Solutions' factory in Nersac, southwestern France, January 31, 2008. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

    DETROIT (Reuters) - LG Chem Ltd unit Compact Power said it expects lithium-ion battery technology to dominate the hybrid electric car market for the next 15 to 20 years, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

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    The company, which is in the running to supply battery packs for General Motors Corp's highly anticipated Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric car, is also in discussions with other automakers on potential battery supply deals, CEO Prabhakar Patil told the Reuters Autos Summit.

    Patil declined to specify which automakers the company is talking to.

    As demand from the auto industry grows, Compact Power will generate up to $1 billion in sales in the next 10 years, Patil said.

    (For summit blog: summitnotebook.reuters.com/)

    (Reporting by Nichola Groom; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
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